*** VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING // MORAL SUPERIORITY ***

John 8:41 You are doing the works your father did.? They said to him, ?We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father?even God.?

Our Attempt at Moral Justification

And most of you are not Jews. So you may say, I don?t do this. I don?t claim any ethnic or religious superiority. I?m just a regular guy that keeps my nose clean, probably better than most. One closing word for you: Verse 41: ?They said to him, ?We were not born of sexual immorality. Where did that come from? Nobody said they were. They probably weren?t. Well, why bring it up? They brought it up because the scuttlebutt about Jesus is that he was born of sexual immorality. His mother was pregnant before she was married. So what does that get the people?

It gets them moral superiority. ?Look Jesus, we?re not bastards. If anybody is enslaved here, it?s you, to your sordid past.? Nobody escapes from this text. Everybody is here in these Jewish self-justifiers. We don?t need you, Jesus. We have our ethnicity. We don?t need you. We have our religion. We don?t need you. We have our moral superiority.

via The Truth Will Set You Free written by John Piper.

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• Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit - 2011
• If You Abide In My Word, You Are Truly My Disciples - 2011
• Bethlehem's Antioch Moment - 2011
• Where He is known in this dimension, there is a healthy fear of the Lord - 2011
• It involves more risk than we assess prudent to take - 2011
• Psalm 90:17 - 2011
• Faithfulness - 2011
• Establish - 2011
• Elect - 2011